By Curtis Honeycutt Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks – pretty much anything Ken Burns
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Playing a game of question tag
By Curtis Honeycutt I don’t know much about street art. I’m no graffitist (a person who does graffiti), but I do know that to “tag”
Spilling the tea on sentence fragments
By Curtis Honeycutt Blame it all on my British roots, but I’ve never preferred coffee. I like hanging out in coffee shops. I don’t mind
Saving seats at the movie theater
By Curtis Honeycutt Did you know that The Beatles’ album “Let It Be” is technically a soundtrack? It accompanies the 1970 documentary of the same
Come sale away (just don’t sail with me)
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve never been fond of boats or horses. The reason I’m not a boat fan is because I’m a 38-year-old man who
The Southside Times – June 22-28, 2023
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Did I hear that correctly?
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve written before about mondegreens — music lyrics people mishear. Many of you mistake Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” line as “Hold me
Skip to the endonym
By Curtis Honeycutt Don’t you love it when linguistics and geography collide? No, I’m not talking about the town of Noun, Alaska, where people, places,
How verbal hedges can get you out of yard work
By Curtis Honeycutt At the dawn of every springtime, I make a list of things I want to do in my lawn and garden. This
The loneliest words in the dictionary
By Curtis Honeycutt Talking about unpaired socks is like talking about the need to eat food — it happens to everyone. Anyone in the history